Abraham Lilncoln - Amerricas First And Only Dictator?
I’m amused by those that say that president Bush has abused our rights comparing him with Hitler while cast adulation on Lincoln who affectively threw The Rule of Law and the Constitution under the bus as he establish martial law over the entire country. Some of Lincolns many dictatorial transgressions from the book ‘When in the Course of Human Events by Charles Adams
. Called up the militia without Congressional appoval. The Feds had no standing army at that time. The border states separating the south from the north refuse to send troops.
. Initiated a blockade of southern seaports again without congressional approval.
. Suspended Habeus Corpus which affectively established military rule
. Shut down dissenting newspapers and imprisoned their editors. Actually all persons who criticized the war were subject to military arrest and imprisonment without trial or trial in military courts. During the course of the war, an estimated 20,000 were imprisoned.
. Arrested many of the Maryland state representatives and then rigged the replacement election to ensure that the state stayed in the union.
. Issued an order to arrest Chief Justice Taney for his decision opposing the suspension of habeus corpus. Fortunately the order was never carried out.
How was one man able to do all this making the nation as a whole bow down to his rule? The obvious answer is that he as commander in chief was in control of the military. If this could be done at a time when the Federal government was relatively weak as compared with today’s Federal government, how much easier it would seem to be today for the president to establish total control. On that question it would seem prudent that we carefully consider who will be our next president.
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